54 JOURNAL OF THE 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, spreading and ascending, 2’—3’ 
long, about 3” wide, rounded at the base, generally 
9-nerved, beneath appressed pubescent, above glabrous, 
lower leaves distant, the upper approximate. Panicle 
1’__9? Jong, broadly oval, the branches fascicled, spread- 
ing, spikelets rather numerous, broadly obovate, some- 
what over 1” long, apiculate, the acute first scale scarce- 
ly one-third the length of the nearly smooth 7-nerved 
second and third. 
A species with the habit of P. scoparium, and spikelets which are 
nearly the size and shape of those of P. viscidum. Based on No. 283, 
ex Herb. A. Commons. Dry soil, Centreville, Del. June, 1873. Dis- 
tributed sub nom. P. Scribnerianum Nash. 
58) PANICUM VILLOSSISSIMUM Nash, Torr. Bul. 23: 
149 (1896). Stems erect or ascending, tufted, slender, 
16’—24’ high. villous with long, ascending hairs, barbed 
above the glabrous nodes, "joints geniculate. Sheaths 
much shorter than the internodes, villous ; ligule pilose. 
Stem leaves linear-lanceolate 25’—4’ long, 3’’—4’’ wide, 
rounded at the base, ascending, longest about the middle 
of the culm, the upper scarcely reduced, more or less vil- 
lous with spreading hairs; basal leaves much shorter and 
not conspicuous. Panicle 25’—33’ long, equally as broad, 
the numerous slender branches fascicled; spikelets ob- 
ovate. about 1”’ long on slender pedicels. 
Collected by Dr. J. K. Smallin the Ocmulgee river swamp in May, 
1895. Related to P. pubescens and P, haemacarpon. 
59) PANICUM PUBESCENS Lam. Encl. 4:748 (1797). 
Culms tufted’ 10’—20’ high, slender, erect, joints genic- 
ulate, stem to base of panicle villous with long, white, 
spreading hairs, a ring of longer hairs above the joint, 
below which is a naked ring. Sheaths about one half the 
length of the internodes, villous with long white hairs, 
minutely papillate; ligule pilose. Stem leaves ascending, 
linear-lanceolate, gradually narrowed at the base, taper- 
